Women Engineering Society Secured 2nd Position in URRAAN: Gender, Tech, and Mobility Hackathon at LUMS

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Women Engineering Society Secured 2nd Position in URRAAN: Gender, Tech, and Mobility Hackathon at LUMS

 Team WES participated in the URRAAN: Gender, Tech, and Mobility Hackathon held by LUMS. The competition required us to come up with a solution for different problem statements given.  

Our problem statement was Walkability: How women face issues when walking on the footpaths, waiting for busses, and just going about their normal life while being in a public space. To cater to the issues, we proposed a device that could alert the authorities and people nearby in case of any inappropriate doings. The device was a microprocessor chip that could be attached to anything that a woman was wearing, a watch, necklace, bracelet, or even tie up as a band under her sleeve. The chip would be activated through speech recognition. Open buying the chip, the person who was going to use it could customize it and feed a safe word that would later activate the chip. When the chip is activated, it will send the location coordinates to the nearest Police Station while also ringing an alarm and a very high-intensity light. This will be done to startle the intruder.  

Our proposed solution was able to secure the second position in the competition with a monetary prize of 30,000Rs. The following members participated in the competition: 

  1. Erum Iftikhar (Batch 29) 
  2. Imtesal Ameena (Batch 30) 
  3. Afiya Rehman (Batch 31) 
  4. Rafay Mustafa (Batch 31

 

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